CERES English Handwriting 1500-1700: An Online Course, with an introduction by Elizabeth Leedham Green. http://www.english.cam.ac.uk/ceres/ehoc

Includes an historical introduction, MS examples, alphabets, transcriptions, guide to dating and describing hands and a bibliography.

Leeds University Palaeography Tutorials

http://www.leeds.ac.uk/library/spcoll/palaeogr.htm

Examples for transcription from the Brotherton Library, transcription rules

Palaeography: Reading Old Handwriting 1500-1800: A Practical Online Tutorial

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/palaeography/default.htm

Manuals

Dawson, Giles E. and Laetitia Kennedy Skipton. Elizabethan Handwriting 1500-1650: A Guide to the Reading of Documents and Manuscripts. Chichester: Phillimore, 1981 (First published New York: Norton, 1966.)

50 plates with transcripts. Bibliography.

Denholm-Young, Noel. Handwriting in England and Wales. 2nd ed. Cardiff: University of Wales,1964.

Covers whole field of medieval and Renaissance palaeography. 31 plates. Bibliography.

Hector, L.C. The Handwriting of English Documents. 2nd ed. London: Edward Arnold, 1966.

Covers period 700-1830. 32 plates with transcripts. Bibliography.

Jenkinson, Hilary. The Later Court Hands in England from the Fifteenth to the Seventeenth Century. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1927. 2 vols.

Detailed account of all hands used in the period including secretary, italic and mixed hands. 44 plates with transcripts. Bibliography.

*Marshall, Hilary. Palaeography for Family and Local Historians. Chichester: Phillimore, 2004.

Plates with transcripts, translations, commentaries. Bibliography. Latin and Anglo Norman French vocabulary.

Munby, Lionel, Steve Hobbs and Alan Crosby. Reading Tudor and Stuart Handwriting. 2nd ed. British Association for Local History, 2002 (First published Chichester, Phillimore for the British Association for Local History, 1988.)

16 plates with transcripts. Bibliography.

*Petti, Anthony G. English Literary Hands from Chaucer to Dryden. London: Edward Arnold, 1977.

67 plates with transcripts and notes. Bibliography. Of special interest to students of English Literature. Discusses survival of literary MSS and includes facsimiles of Renaissance authors.

Preston, Jean F. and Laetitia Yeandle. English Handwriting 1400-1650: An Introductory Manual. Binghamton NY: Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 1992.

31 plates and transcripts, with sample alphabets.

Reference Works